You're seeing it here first.
I can show you wonderful brand-new photos that I took of the brand-new hospital section of the Binneland Sub Judice soapie on M-Net that viewers will start to see from Monday, 5 April at 18:00 on M-Net when the daily soap becomes an hour long on weekdays with the new name.
I was on the Binnelanders sets when the soap started in 2005, I was on the Grey's Anatomy sets in Los Angeles during a set visit there and I was on the brand-new Binneland Sub Judice sets on Thursday.
I can now tell you that the new Binneland Sub Judice hospital section is . . . much bigger and much more vast that Grey's Anatomy which is a weekly top ten show in America. And then there's still a whole new legal side set section as well. Super impressive for a local South African TV production! Well done to Stark Films and M-Net for going bigger and better.
If you want to see a complete walk through with set pics of the new Binneland hospital at Stark Studios, click on READ MORE below.
The Binnelanders sets were in some places dismantled, rebuilt and enhanced, and in some cases rebuilt from scratch, to recreate the Binneland hospital on the new sound stages at Stark Studios in Fountainbleau in Johannesburg.
Here you can see the new lobby or front entrance of the Binneland hospital.
The new Binneland foyer from another angle.
The nurses' duty station.
How Nagskof will look on-screen from April: still the same, yet slightly enhanced, somewhat bigger, bolder and better.
The new and massive lounge area with orange overtones.
The ''new'' hospital administrator offices. Look at the size and the scale of the physical floor area and how big it is.
A look at some of the walkways and ''corridors'' of the ''new'' hospital. What happens is that viewers are often fooled (on this show and others) by the ''infinity'' effect: actors and characters who have a ''walk and talk'' scene and a seemingly endless conversation in seemingly endless corridors. It's done by ''cut and change'' backdrop scenes - essentially the same piece of corridor but different angles.
Now the little blinds can open and close and its been constructed to make even more different angles possible to make it look as if the Binneland hospital has many different corridors, floors and walkways.
Secret: The larger corridors actually create a new problem for the producers and cameramen. Where the extras previously could wait for their cue, hiding away around a corner until its time to walk by in the background, they're now much more visible and show up hanging around in camera angles if they're not careful. Extras have to hide even further away now and be tucked away by producers to make sure they don't ''appear'' before its not absolutely the right time.
Binneland Sub Judice from Monday, 5 April, M-Net, 18:00
